Cross-Platform Microsoft 348
willdavid sends us to the ZDNet blogs for a provocative opinion piece by John Carroll. He points to Microsoft's evident cross-platform strategy with Silverlight, and wonders whether the company couldn't make money — and win friends — by extending its excellent development ecosystem cross-platorm. "Microsoft, apparently, is helping the folks at Mono to port Silverlight to Linux. This is good news, as the primary fear I've heard from developers is that Silverlight will be locked to Microsoft platforms and products. Microsoft has already committed to supporting Silverlight cross-browser on Windows, and has a version that runs on Mac OS X (which is even available from the Apple web site). The last step is Linux, and Microsoft is working with Novell and Mono to make this happen."
The last step is Linux? (Score:4, Funny)
Directions from Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
2. type make
3. ???
4. profit!
Re:bleh (Score:5, Funny)
Well they've always done a good job at their Macintosh ports and keeping them up to date...
Oh, hold on a second while I minimize this window of IE5 for OSX. I have to open Outlook for OS9 to reply to an e-mail.
Frontpage is cross platform (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Some day M$ will own all the code. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:bleh (Score:5, Funny)
Killing off Flash and AJAX? So, you're saying we should LIKE Microsoft now?
Re:The last step is Linux? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The last step is Linux? (Score:3, Funny)